Sentences with phrase «pterodactyl fossil»

Other fossils of note: Mary Anning went on to discover the first English pterodactyl fossil (Dimorphodon), an important fish called Squaloraja, and several interesting belemnites (squid - like cephalopods) with ink sacs still intact.

Deep beneath an ash bed in an area of northwest China famed for its mud - filled «dinosaur death pits» that snared all sorts of prehistoric creatures, researchers have unearthed the oldest pterodactyl fossil ever discovered.

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Fossil data presented at an evolution conference at The Rockefeller University indicate that pterodactyls got steadily larger, possibly because smaller ones couldn't compete with birds.

Fossil fragments of the flying reptile, Kryptodrakon progenitor, uncovered in northwest China, belong to the earliest known pterodactyl species, which lived about 163 million years ago.

He had been amazed by a fossil he had seen in a museum and, being an incurable model builder, had talked the producers of a movie being made about natural and artificial flight into funding his robotic pterodactyl.